Number. 5. 
I gave 'this Catterpillar N. 5. Many plants to eat 
but he refufed them all : At length it came into iny 
minde, that he njight be delighted with Neties, which 
when I had brought to him, he to my great admiration 
rabd his Head a^^ainft them, and fhewed fignes of glad- 
neis, and eat them greedily. 
After he had been fed fome time with Netles, he 
compofed himfclfe for change OStlxr, 3* In the forme 
expreffed JV. g. Under a Glass, to which he fixed 
himfelfe with his Head downwards. 
If you touched the ' Chryfalys, it tnoued it fejfc fo 
ftrongly as made the Glaffe ring like a Bell, 
Out of this change came the i®*of Decemhri &vcty 
faire Butterfly, Peacock-like Eyed. 
The Butterfly lived 40 |Daycs without food, and 
dyed, for I knew not what to feed him with. 
'This CgtCfrpiller fiifes ^eur ^iathorl rtfufed to eat of matty’ 
forts of plants offered him^ and would feed of none IsttNetlest 
J addf and he would ba've andoubtedlj (lar'ved ffrftiTbis is not 
an effeB of the different make of the Organ of their meuthes^ :, 
( as above faid betwixt the feeding^ of a Catterpillar and a 
SntSerffy ) hut vfrily the delicatenfs of the Palate andtafle : 
which perhaps mi ght be improved to gojd ptsrpofe iu difover- 
ing the vertue of ’Plants,. 
